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  • John Bender – Pop Surgery
    John Bender – Pop Surgery
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    Following the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It and his brilliant follow-up Plaster Falling, Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began [...]

  • Flaming Tunes – S/T
    Flaming Tunes – S/T
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    Flaming Tunes’ sole release is perhaps the finest elegy to the ‘80s home recording ethos that you’ve never heard. Originally released in 1985 on cassette (with individually hand-colored covers), [...]

  • The Fall – Perverted By Language
    The Fall – Perverted By Language
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    The Fall returned to Rough Trade in 1983 to release a pair of singles (“The Man Whose Head Expanded” and “Kicker Conspiracy”) and Perverted By Language, their sixth proper studio […]

  • Richard Johnson – Lost in Room: Mark Perry, Alternative TV and Related, 1977 – 1981
    Richard Johnson – Lost in Room: Mark Perry, Alternative TV and Related, 1977 – 1981
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    What our staff has to say: “Always been a big fan of Mark Perry and his associated bands, Alternative TV (especially their 2nd record), Good Missionaries, The Reflections, Door & […]

  • Black Marble – Fast Idol (Golden Nugget Vinyl)
    Black Marble – Fast Idol (Golden Nugget Vinyl)
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    On Fast Idol, LA-based Black Marble reaches back through time to connect with the forgotten bedroom kids of the analogue era, the halcyon days of icy hooks and warbly synths. […]

  • The Dance – Do Dada (Orange Vinyl)
    The Dance – Do Dada (Orange Vinyl)
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    Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk! Do Dada captures The Dance surfing the emerging No Wave scene across their earliest recordings, featuring cuts from their early EPs paired with previously [...]

  • The Fall – Live At Doornroosje, Nijmegen 1999
    The Fall – Live At Doornroosje, Nijmegen 1999
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    The Fall released many recordings following their inception in 1976, often inviting use of the tag ‘prolific’. Their first release as a group was the EP Bingo-Master’s Break [...]

  • The Fall – Live 16th April 2001 – TJs Newport Wales UK
    The Fall – Live 16th April 2001 – TJs Newport Wales UK
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    When Mark E Smith died in January 2018, an era ended with him. The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many […]

  • The Fall – Live At The Knitting Factory LA – 14th November 2001
    The Fall – Live At The Knitting Factory LA – 14th November 2001
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    Quality live set from the Fall captured at The Knitting Factory – Los Angeles – 14 November 2001.

  • The Fall – Live @ MOHO, Manchester 11th November 2009
    The Fall – Live @ MOHO, Manchester 11th November 2009
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    Audience recording (very good)of this concert.

  • The Fall – Live 1980 November 20th Cedar Ballroom Birmingham UK
    The Fall – Live 1980 November 20th Cedar Ballroom Birmingham UK
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    Recorded live on November 20th 1980 Cedar Ballroom Birmingham UK

  • Alan Vega – Invasion / Murder One (Transparent Red Vinyl)
    Alan Vega – Invasion / Murder One (Transparent Red Vinyl)
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    One of Alan Vega’s greatest talents was his ability to bring the past and the future together into a suspended place of timelessness. His groundbreaking duo Suicide was often seen […]

  • The Fall – Interim
    The Fall – Interim
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    Interim is an album by English post-punk band The Fall, compiled from live and studio material originally released in 2004 by record label Hip Priest. Interim features the first officially […]

  • Alan Vega – Saturn (Highlighter Yellow Vinyl)
    Alan Vega – Saturn (Highlighter Yellow Vinyl)
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    Alan Vega’s work with Suicide is revered by just about every electronic music artist who’s tapped a keyboard or moved a mouse; his snarling, rockabilly-styled vocals teamed with [...]

  • Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
    Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
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    Collecting the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devastating one-two knockout blow of 1978 studio bookends “The Modern Dance” and “Dub Housing”, following by [...]

  • V/A – Mehme Aslan presents Senza Decoro
    V/A – Mehme Aslan presents Senza Decoro
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    A new compilation explores the far reaches of the post-punk, experimental and electronic landscape in Switzerland on Senza Decoro: Liebe & Anarchia in Switzerland 1980-1990 curated by [...]

  • Scritti Politti – Early
    Scritti Politti – Early
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    What our staff has to say: “Been jamming a lot of the early Rough Trade singles lately, so gotta throw on these early Scritti Politti one’s included on this comp.” […]

  • Ian Elms – Good Night
    Ian Elms – Good Night
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    Ian Elms’s cult isolationist synth masterpiece Good Night returns via Dark Entries. Originally released in 1982, Good Night blends Berlin school minimalism and BBC Radiophonic weirdness with the [...]

  • Second Layer – World Of Rubber
    Second Layer – World Of Rubber
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    Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier […]

  • Alexander Robotnick – Ce N’est Qu’un Debut
    Alexander Robotnick – Ce N’est Qu’un Debut
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    BACK IN PRINT!!! ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK (aka MAURIZIO DAMI) is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of AVIDA, a dance-cabaret […]

  • Second Layer – Courts Or Wars
    Second Layer – Courts Or Wars
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    Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier […]

  • Suburban Lawns – S/T
    Suburban Lawns – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Everything else is irrelative.” – Cleo If your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke New Wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot […]

  • Wire ‎– 154
    Wire ‎– 154
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    What our staff has to say: “Wire’s third album has 13 of the greatest songs ever written on it. It’s arguably the best of their career and is infinitely relistenable. […]

  • Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
    Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
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    Unknown Pleasures, the debut studio album from Joy Division, was first released in 1979 on Factory Records. Within the first year, the album’s atmospheric sound had won over fans and […]

  • The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys
    The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys
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    2022 repress. The undisputed leaders of the early gothic scene, and a seminal band that contributed to the rise of British post-punk, The Cure recorded their debut album Three Imaginary […]

  • The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
    The Threat – Live In Limerick (1981)
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    Legendary Dublin punk band formed in November 1978 by Maurice Foley (guitar/vocals), which had a number of iterations before disbanding in 1981. The Threat built up a following in Dublin […]

  • The Threat – Lullaby In C / High Cost Of Living
    The Threat – Lullaby In C / High Cost Of Living
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    Legendary Dublin punk band formed in November 1978 by Maurice Foley (guitar/vocals), which had a number of iterations before disbanding in 1981. The Threat built up a following in Dublin […]

  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In
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    Mute – STUMM 123 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: Apr 18, 1994 VG+/VG+ Some edgewear & cornerwear. Light marks.

  • Tolerance – Divin
    Tolerance – Divin
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    What our staff has to say: “Since the death of Yuzuru Agi, a lot of reissues of releases on his Vanity Records label have been popping up on labels like […]

  • Aunt Sally – S/T
    Aunt Sally – S/T
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    Mesh-Key is honored to present a deluxe reissue of a true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. We spared no expense bringing this classic back […]

  • Suicide – Half Alive
    Suicide – Half Alive
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    Half Alive is a compilation album by Suicide, originally released on cassette only on September 9, 1981 by ROIR. It is composed of live recordings from 1978 and home and […]

  • Suicide – Ghost Riders
    Suicide – Ghost Riders
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    The classic ’81 live album from No-Wave legends, Suicide, reissued by ROIR.

  • Teenage Jesus & The Jerks – Live 1977-1979 (White Vinyl)
    Teenage Jesus & The Jerks – Live 1977-1979 (White Vinyl)
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    Reissue. Visionary No Wave legends Teenage Jesus and The Jerks created a confrontational sound, with a shifting line-up as a platform for Lydia Lunch’s shouted vocal shocks, accompanied by [...]

  • V/A – Italia Synthetica 1981-1985 (White Vinyl)
    V/A – Italia Synthetica 1981-1985 (White Vinyl)
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    Back in print on white vinyl! Italia Synthetica 1981-1985 represents the musical mutation that occurred after the post-punk hangover gave way to more frigid emotional shores, in-line with the [...]

  • Forever Grey – Autumn Calling LP (Turquoise Colored Vinyl)
    Forever Grey – Autumn Calling LP (Turquoise Colored Vinyl)
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    Another black gem from the dark corners of the Los Angeles based unit now consisting of Kevin Czarnik and Anna Schmidt (Milliken Chamber, Belladonna Grave, Jane Chain, Denim etc.) Clear […]

  • Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
    Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
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    PRE-ORDER:  Will ship on or around release date, 1/12/24   Released in March 1996, Milk & Kisses is the eighth and final studio album by Cocteau Twins. And like its […]

  • Cocteau Twins – Four-Calendar Café
    Cocteau Twins – Four-Calendar Café
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    PRE-ORDER:  Will ship on or around release date, 1/12/24   Four Calendar Café, the seventh and penultimate studio album by Cocteau Twins, has just turned thirty and in January, 4AD […]

  • Chlorine – Wait For The Light To Shine
    Chlorine – Wait For The Light To Shine
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    What our staff has to say: “The instrumentals on this record are fantastic – super hazy synths, steady drum machine, all creating this surreal wash of sound. Perfect for lonely […]

  • Gee Gee Decorator – Gee Gee Decorator
    Gee Gee Decorator – Gee Gee Decorator
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    On the same label that brought us that Pat Metheny “Zero Tolerance for Silence” ‘reissue’ last year…. Insane “private press” ultra-obscurity reissued for [...]

  • Model Citizens – NYC 1978-1979 (Red Vinyl)
    Model Citizens – NYC 1978-1979 (Red Vinyl)
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    What our staff has to say: “Adjacent to New York’s No Wave movement, but straddling a line maybe a bit closer to new wave than a lot of the no […]

  • Augustus Muller [Boy Harsher] – CELLULOSED BODIES (Crystal Clear Vinyl)
    Augustus Muller [Boy Harsher] – CELLULOSED BODIES (Crystal Clear Vinyl)
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    Augustus Muller (Boy Harsher) teams up again with Four Chambers to release CELLULOSED BODIES, which features two scores, Crash and Automation, through imprint Nude Club Records. Four Chambers is [...]

  • Tolerance – Anonym
    Tolerance – Anonym
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    “Legendary debut album by Junko Tange, originally issued by Osaka’s Vanity Records. Dadaesque recitations and sparse guitar, piano and electronic meanderings combine for a beguiling, [...]

  • Non Band – S/T
    Non Band – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Great experimental / no wave leaning, violin heavy post punk from Japan, 1982. Originally released as a 10″, now available via Tal as a […]

  • The Apartments – The Evening Visits…and Stays for Years (Expanded Edition)
    The Apartments – The Evening Visits…and Stays for Years (Expanded Edition)
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    What our staff has to say: “Candlelit folk jams, my favorite genre for awhile. Captured Tracks with a great reissue includes first EPs & even some demos for the price […]

  • Temple Of Angels – Endless Pursuit (Cloudy Clear Vinyl)
    Temple Of Angels – Endless Pursuit (Cloudy Clear Vinyl)
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    Temple of Angels’ debut full-length, Endless Pursuit, is a towering and stunning album of gothic beauty that heralds the proper arrival of one of the most dazzling bands performing right [...]

  • Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe
    Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe
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    What our staff has to say: “Truly mangled guitar music at its finest.” – Alex Noisy and experimental, Britain’s Swell Maps experienced little commercial success during the [...]

  • DAF – Gold Und Liebe
    DAF – Gold Und Liebe
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    Many things have been said about this band: they were called the godfathers of techno, the pioneers of EBM and the forefathers of electropunk. Yet they only laugh coolly and […]

  • DAF – Die Kleinen Und Die Bosen
    DAF – Die Kleinen Und Die Bosen
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    Many things have been said about this band: they were called the godfathers of techno, the pioneers of EBM and the forefathers of electropunk. Yet they only laugh coolly and […]

  • DAF – Alles Ist Gut
    DAF – Alles Ist Gut
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    What our staff has to say: “An incredibly cold & efficient record that still rips hard 40 years later.” – Cleo Many things have been said about this band: they […]

  • Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy
    Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy
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    Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five […]

  • Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
    Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
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    Late ’70s San Francisco. The Summer of Love is a hazy memory, the AIDS crisis is looming, and nearby Silicon Valley is still an obscure place where microchips are made. […]

  • Lydia Lunch – Queen Of Siam (Red VInyl)
    Lydia Lunch – Queen Of Siam (Red VInyl)
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    Reissue, originally released in 1980. After the demise of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lydia Lunch launched her solo career with Queen of Siam, arguably her greatest LP. In true […]

  • Philip Johnson – Youth In Mourning
    Philip Johnson – Youth In Mourning
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    Philip Johnson, a lost figure in the dark waters of early industrial music, self-released over 25 tapes starting in the late ’70s. As a part of the “cassette culture” in […]

  • Milk From Cheltenham – Triptych Of Poisoners
    Milk From Cheltenham – Triptych Of Poisoners
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    The first-time vinyl reissue of the sole album from UK DIY legends Milk From Cheltenham, originally released in 1983 on famed It’s War Boys imprint, is recommended for fans of […]

  • Liquid Idiot / Idiot Orchestra – S/T
    Liquid Idiot / Idiot Orchestra – S/T
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    Prior to forming Liquid Liquid in 1981, the band members were in two other groups: Liquid Idiot and Idiot Orchestra. While these ensembles sounded more experimental than groove-oriented, the [...]

  • Amateur Hour – Amateur Hour
    Amateur Hour – Amateur Hour
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    The highly sought after debut album originally released through Förlag För Fri Musik, finally reissued! Pressed in 500 copies with updated cover art & contains an insert with liner notes […]

  • Soul Jazz Records Presents: Cold Wave II
    Soul Jazz Records Presents: Cold Wave II
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    Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s […]

  • Soul Jazz Records Presents: Cold Wave I
    Soul Jazz Records Presents: Cold Wave I
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    What our staff has to say: “Great comp compiled by Soul Jazz. This one and the second are both top notch. An insert is included giving a brief synopsis of […]

  • David Cunningham – Grey Scale
    David Cunningham – Grey Scale
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    “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial [...]

  • Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
    Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
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    Possibly one of the weirdest experiments in the post-punk realm, Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) is the second studio album by English anti-heroes Alternative TV, originally released in […]